Pressure sensitivity of olivine slip systems and seismic anisotropy of Earth's upper mantle

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7027, 2005, Pages 731-733

  Mainprice, David ^a   Tommasi, Andréa ^a   Couvy, Hélène ^b,c   Cordier, Patrick ^b   Frost, Daniel J ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CREEP; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); MINERALOGY; PRESSURE EFFECTS; ROCKS;

MANTLE ROCKS; PRESSURE SENSITIVITY; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY;

SEISMOLOGY;

MINERAL; OLIVINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CREEP; OLIVINE; PRESSURE EFFECT; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; UPPER MANTLE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 14344253458     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03266     Document Type: Article

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